People: Just Deserts

After reading that King Farouk was an avid butterfly collector, Dr.
Lloyd E. Alexander, head of the biology department at Kentucky State
College for Negroes in Frankfort, wrote a letter to Cairo. Could the
King spare some of his royal bugs and butterflies for the college
collection? Last week Professor Alexander an nounced that the King had
been more than happy to accommodate his fellow naturalists: 27 boxes
full of 909 specimens had arrived at the Egyptian Embassy in
Washington.

In Uvalde, Texas, former Vice President John Nance Garner, 83, invited
the city commissioners to a meeting. Said he: "I'm not a...